Mahogany

What Mahogany looks like

Heterozygous Mahogany allele. Subtle darkening with warm reddish-brown tones.

Dark color modifier locus with at least two known alleles. Mahogany (het): subtle darkening with warm reddish-brown tones. Cinder (het): darkening with cooler tones. Both produce dramatic super forms that are very dark. Mahogany x Cinder produces an acts-like-super result, confirming allelism.

How to identify it: Mahogany: warm dark reddish-brown tones, subtle as single gene. Cinder: cooler dark tones. Super forms are dramatically dark.

How Mahogany is inherited

Mahogany follows a incomplete dominant inheritance pattern, carried on the Mahogany / Cinder Complex allele (locus Mahogany).